Comedian Whitney Cummings was a guest on The Today Show yesterday, where she revealed that she’s gained 25 pounds. She looks great to me and younger, although she still doesn’t look like she’s 32 years old as she’s claiming to be. (I tried to google this, and one of the suggested search phrases was “Whitney Cummings lied her age.” Without spending more than five minutes, there isn’t much hard proof that she’s older, although many people suspect it.) Cummings made a lot of rude comments about how she looked before she gained the weight, saying that she looked like she was “passing away”. I guess as long as she’s saying that about herself it’s ok, but she was simply thin, she wasn’t deathly ill looking. US Magazine helpfully added an older explanation Whitney gave for why she looks older than “32?, late nights. Yeah, right.

The Whitney star, 32, then got serious, explaining, “I did this weird thing that nobody likes to do anymore where I gained weight.”

“I gained, like, 25 pounds, which I think I needed to,” the hilarious actress dished. “I was way too skinny before. Here’s the thing… when you’re on television, you get confused. I looked like I was passing away, like I was so skinny [that] it’s not attractive.”

Cummings, who is currently on her comedy tour, indeed looks better than ever. She seemed happy and healthy on Today, and sported a black jumpsuit that showed off her trim figure.

“I put on, like, 20 pounds and I think it filled [out my face],” she added to Kotb and Gifford. “People think I got a face-lift.”

Cummings previously touched on her feelings about her own appearance in a Reddit AMA session last year. Asked by a user if she’s ever been truly hurt by a joke, the star admitted that she has.

“I think anything appearance-based – because as a comedian, you don’t sign up to be judged on your appearance, you should just be judged on how funny you are,” she said. “I would get jokes about looking older than I am, which hurt my feelings because as a comedian you work such crazy hours, I just sleep less, I’m on the road constantly, so I think to work so hard, and then to have someone tell you you look older than you are, I wanted to say, ‘You’d look like this too if you had only two hours of a sleep a night.’”

[From US Magazine]

Remember when Whitney was supposed to be the next big thing but then her show got cancelled in 2013 after two seasons and then we didn’t hear much from her? She told Howard Stern a couple of years ago that she felt blacklisted by her fellow comedians and that she assumed it was because she was successful.

Here’s Whitney on The Today Show. She’s promoting her stand up tour and comedy special for HBO. She also claims that she’s been using an LED machine on her skin and an electronic machine called NuFace, which is supposed to reduce wrinkles. (I’ve heard of this and did some research into it a little while ago. Commenters on Amazon say not to use it around your neck or it will affect your thyroid.) I would think there are some injectables involved too, but it is true what she says: “your a** or your face“.

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